homicide
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Not everyone opposes a foreign military presence, in a country that recorded South America's highest homicide rate last year, with 51 killings per 100,000 inhabitants.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Inquiries become cold cases when police believe a homicide has been fully investigated but remains unsolved.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
On U.S. soil, police officers who shoot fleeing, nonthreatening suspects can be charged with and convicted of murder or other forms of criminal homicide under both state and federal law.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Last month, the county Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner classified Aurora’s death as a homicide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
He knew the prosecutors were on the fence, at best, about charging Reggie with negligent homicide.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
The latest data show homicides of Latinos fell slightly and remained slightly lower than their population count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
He may not single-handedly solve homicides in America, but today it seems he’s accomplished his more modest goal of touching at least one Angeleno with his words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The case looked like it would remain one of more than 250,000 unsolved homicides in the US.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, where the fake tip was sent in, is a Philadelphia police website that lists unsolved homicides, takes tips on cases and offers a $20,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
So even in a death penalty advocate’s best-case scenario, capital punishment could explain only one twenty-fifth of the drop in homicides in the 1990s.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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